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Explosive new information has revealed the defence barrister at the centre of the Informer 3838 scandal was registered as a police informer 10 years earlier than Victoria Police previously admitted, a development police blamed on an administrative "shortcoming".

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Qantas and Virgin Australia are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars a year feting watchdogs, public servants, and politicians and their families with complimentary memberships to private airline lounges, limousines and business and first-class flight upgrades.